Year Of The Monkey By Patti Smith Travel Memoir Autobiography Hardcover

Description: Year Of The Monkey by Patti Smith From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey." For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from Southern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places - this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world.Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.Hardcover, 176 pages.MSRP: $24.99About Us: We've been serving the Music Industry selling out of print sound recordings, media supplies, and fun music & pop culture accessories to indie music stores across the country since 1972. We are a Dun & Bradstreet rated firm, and a member of the Better Business Bureau with their highest rating - A+! Wholesale & Retail FriendlyWe're available for comments, suggestions or questions. Please contact us if we can be of service! (At the bottom of each listing there is a link under Questions & Answers About this Item?)Business Hours: 9am to 5pm PST, Mon-Fri. Please note: If you contact us on a weekend we'll respond A.S.A.P. on Monday! (We're closed on Saturday & Sunday) Domestic Shipping Information: We can ship any method currently offered by U.P.S or the U.S. Post Office. Express shipping available. Please contact us for a quote if you don't see the option you'd like.Media Mail is available for Media Items ONLY (Books, DVDs, CDs, etc.) Media Mail is SLOW! SLOW! SLOW! Do NOT choose if you are in a hurry. Media Mail is illegal to use for record sleeves, jackets, and supplies - it is only for recorded media. See USPS for more details.WE ARE HAPPY TO COMBINE FREIGHT FOR MULTIPLE ITEM PURCHASES!! If it doesn't combine automatically at checkout please email us with your zip code and we will provide a quote! International Shipping Information: Buyers outside of the USA - please contact us with your shipping address for a shipping quote if no shipping is specified on this listing.Buyers outside of the USA - if this listing is "free shipping" for domestic customers, it means we had to budget in some shipping costs to merchandise price. Please feel free to submit a best offer, and we can give you a better deal to account for the higher merchandise cost. Buyers outside of the USA are responsible for their own customs fees. We will not declare it as a gift, or at a lower value. Please see our ABOUT ME page or our eBay STORE to see the WIDE variety of items we carry! CLICK HERE TO ADD US TO YOUR FAVORITE SELLERS! Thank you for looking! Square Deal Recordings & Supplies 2146 Parker Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

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